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modal voice is the only phonation found in the vowels and other sonorants (consonants such as m, n, l, and r) of most of the languages of the world, but a significant minority contrasts modal voice with other phonations. Among obstruents (consonants such as k, g, t?/ch, d?/j, s, and z), it is very common for languages to contrast modal voice with voicelessness, but in English, many supposedly-voiced

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